The Commanding Officers
The Commanding Officer (C.O.) is the top soldier of any Infantry Battalion, normally someone who would have soldiered within his Battalion from Subaltern upwards. By the time he reached Lieutenant Colonel the Lance Corporal in his first Platoon could well be a senior Warrant officer or even the Regimental Sgt Major. Such is the way of a British Infantry Battalion. To most Soldiers the C.O. was a distant figure who you didn’t wish to meet on orders ‘The guard room beckons’
Listed below are the Commanding officers of the 1st Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment from the birth of the Regiment through to the amalgamation with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1994.
Lt Col G.F. WOOLNOUGH M.C. 1959-1961
Lt Col D.E. BALLANTINE O.B.E. M.C. 1961 -1963
Lt Col F.H.B. BOSHELL D.S.O.1963-1965
Lt Col J. R. RODEN M.B.E 1965-1967
Lt Col T. A. GIBSON M.B.E 1967-1969
Lt Col D. T. CRABTREE 1969-1972
Lt Col W.G.R. TURNER M.B.E. 1972-1975
Lt Col C. B. LEA COX 1975-1977
Lt Col D. A. JONES 1977-1980
Lt Col G. COXON M.B.E. 1980-1982
Lt Col W. A. MACKERETH 1982-1984
Lt Col A. C. KENWAY 1984-1987
LT Col S.W.J. SAUNDERS 1987-1989
Lt Col D. J. A. STONE 1989-1992
Lt Col H. M. PURCELL 1992-1994
